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What's happening in Danish Decommissioning?

At next year's review meeting of the UN Joint Convention, a DD staff member sits at the critical table. Health physicist Haraldur Hannesson has been appointed to the panel, which will help evaluate, among other things, the US's handling of radioactive waste.

The next three Thursdays in July, you can take a tour of the Risø site and get an impression of the former research centre. The tours will take place regardless of the weather on the following dates: 3 July, 10 July and 17 July. Registration is required.

In May 2014, Danish Decommissioning carried out a major operation: lifting the 22-tonne metal plug from Denmark's largest research reactor DR3. The actual lifting of the plug took an hour, and the operation can be seen in timelapse here.

Success: the massive metal plug that closed Denmark's biggest research reactor DR3 has been pulled open and replaced with a lid. Due to heavy radiation down from the reactor tank, the historic operation has been planned in detail over the past years. DD praises the cooperation with Mammoet and Bladt Industries.

DD is well advanced in the clean-up and release of the facility where Risø produced fuel for the experimental reactors. Come on a tour of the building and read about the task of removing radioactive contamination from floors, walls and drains.

They have raised the kursk nuclear submarine from the bottom of the arctic ocean and erected an overturned 80-ton crane at the Lindø shipyard after the 1999 hurricane. Now Dutch Mammoet with its muscle cranes must pull up a giant metal plug from Risø's largest research reactor.

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